Friday, April 1, 2016

The Poolroom

The Poolroom

Figure 1 : Poolroom Pool Table

The poolroom was my first attempt at creating a truly rich
environmental experience with Stingray.
Most architectural visualization scenes you see are
antiseptically clean and uncomfortably modern. I wanted to break away from that.
I wanted an environment I would feel at home with, not one that a movie star
would buy for sheer resale value to another movie star. I also wanted the
challenge of working with natural and texturally rich materials. Not white on
white, as is generally the case.

Figure : Poolroom Clock

To this end, I started looking for cozy but luxurious spaces
on google and eventually came across a nice reference photo I could work with. Warm
rich woods, lots of games, a bar, and well... those all speak to me. For better
or worse, I felt this room was one I would personally feel comfortable in. So I
took on the challenge of re-creating that environment in 3D inside Stingray.

The challenges

The poolroom gave me some major challenges. Some I knew
would be trouble from the start, but some I didn’t realize until I started
rendering lightmaps. Most of my difficulties came down to handling materials
properly.

Figure 3 : Poolroom Bar

Coming to grips with physically based shaders

In addition to being my first complete Arch-Viz scene in
Stingray, this was also my first real stab at using physically based shading
(PBS). Although physically based shading is similar in many regards to traditional
texturing, it has its own set of tricks and gotchas. I actually had to re-do
the scenes materials more than once as I learned the proper way to do things.

For example, my scene was
predominantly dark woods. With dark woods, you really have to be sure you get
the albedo material in the correct luminosity range or you end up with
difficulties when you light the scene. In my first attempts, I found my light
being just eaten up by the darkness of the wood’s color map. I kept cranking up
the light Intensities, but this would flood the scene and lead to harsh and
broken light bakes.

Figure 4 : Arcade Game
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Eventually, once I understood the effect of the color map’s
luminosity and got the values in line, I started getting great results with
normalized light intensities. My lighting began responding favorably with deep,
rich lightmap bakes. When you get the physical properties of the materials
right, Stingray’s light baker is both fast and very good. But I can’t stress
enough: with PBS, you must ensure that your luminosity values are accurate.

Reference photo was HDR

When I was building out the scene and trying to mimic the
reference photo’s lighting, I realized that the original image was made using
some high-dynamic range techniques. I couldn’t seem to get the same level of
exposure and visual detail in the shadowed areas of my scene.

Figure 5 : Before Ambient Fills

Figure 6 : After Ambient Fills

Because of this, I had to do
some pretty fun trickery with my scene lighting. In the end, I got it by placing
some subtle, non-shadow casting lights in key areas to bring up the brightness
a little in those areas.

Figure 6 : Soft Controlled Lighting

All in all, the scene took a lot of lighting work to get
just right. I have to say that I was very happy with how closely I was able to
match the lighting, given that the original photo was HDR.

Lived-in but not dirty

The last big challenge was also related to materials. I had
to find that fine balance of a room that is clean and tidy but also obviously
lived-in. So often I find Arch-Viz work feels unnaturally smooth and clean, which
can destroy the belief of the space. I really wanted my scene to
break through the uncanny valley and feel real.

I handled this mostly by creating some very simple grunge
maps, and applying them to the roughness maps using a simple custom shader.
This was easy to build in Stingray’s node-based shader graph:

I have this shader set up so I can control the tiling of the
color map, normals and other textures. The grunge map, on the other hand, is
sampled using UV coordinates from the lightmap channel. This helps to hide the
tiling over large areas like the walls, because the grunge value that gets multiplied
in to the roughness is always different each time the other textures repeat.

Balancing the grunge properly was the biggest challenge
here, but in the end, some still shots even get me doing a double-take. When
that happens, I know I’m doing well. I also posted progress along the way on my
Facebook page — when I had friends saying, “whoa, when can I come visit?” I
knew I was nailing it.

3D modeling

Figure 9 : Record Player Model in Maya LT

I don’t have much that’s
special to say about the 3D modeling process. I simply modeled all my assets
the same way anyone would. Attention to detail is really the trick, and making
sure that I created hand-made lightmap UVs for every object was critical to
ensure the best light baking. Otherwise it was just simple modeling.

Figure 10 : Poolroom Model in MayaLT

One thing to note, however, is that I only used 3D tools
that came with the Stingray package, except for Substance Designer and a little
Photoshop. I did the entire scene’s modeling in MayaLT. Sometimes people think
cheap is not good, but I believe this proves otherwise. MayaLT is incredible. I
am super happy with the results and speed at which you can work with it. Best
of all, it’s part of the package, so no additional costs.

Material design

Laying out the materials in
the scene was pretty straightforward for the most part. At one point, I
experimented with using more species of wood, but the different parts of the room
started to feel disconnected. I started removing materials from my list, and
eventually when I ended up with only a small handful the room came together as
you see it.

Figure 11 : Record Player Material Design in Substance

I guess something else I should mention is performance
shaders. Stingray comes with a great, flexible standard shader, but I wanted to
eke out every little bit of performance I could on this scene while keeping the
quality very high. Without much trouble, I created a library of my own purpose-built
shaders (like the one mentioned earlier). I used these for various tasks. Simple
colors, RMA (roughness-metallic-ambient occlusion), RMA-tiling shaders and a
few others came together really quickly. From this handful of shaders, I was
able to increase performance while simplifying my design process. I find it
comforting how Stingray deals with shaders… it is just very easy to iterate and
save a version. Much better usability than other systems I have tried.

Figure 12 : Shader Library

Fun stuff

Well, most game dev is hard
work, the fun is at the end when you get to finally relax and see your efforts
paid off. But there were definitely some really fun parts of making the
poolroom.

One was the clock. It’s a
small, almost easter-egg kind of thing, but I programmed the clock fully. Meaning,
its hands move, the pendulum swings, and it also rings the hour. So if you are
exploring the poolroom and it happens to be when the hour changes in your
system clock, the clock in the game rings the hour for you. So two o’clock
rings two times, four o’clock rings four
times, etc. The half-hour always strikes once. I modeled the clock after one
that my father gave me, so I put some extra love into it. It is basically
exactly the clock that hangs in my living room.

Figure 13 : Clock Model in MayaLT

Figure 14 : Clock Model in Stingray

I also gave the record player
some extra attention, because my good friend Mathew Harwood was kind enough to
do all the audio for the project. I felt the music really set the scene, and he
even worked on it over my twitch stream so we could get feedback from some
people who were watching. So yeah, press +
or - in the game to start and stop
the record player, complete with animated tone arm. Nothing super crazy, just a
nice little touch.

Figure 15 : Record Player in Stingray

Community effort

One thing I found really neat about this project was that I
streamed the entire creation process on my Twitch channel. I have never
streamed much before this project, but it made the process much more fun. I had
people to talk with, and often my viewers were helpful to me in suggesting
ideas and noticing things I had not noticed. It was very collaborative and a
great learning exercise for me and for my viewers. We got to learn from each
other, which is the dream!

For example, the record player likely would not have been
done to the level I did it had one of my viewers not pushed me to make a really
detailed player. Because of this push, it ended up being a focus of the level,
and even has some animation and basic controls a user can interact with.

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